Avoid incrementing bg process utime/stime counters by negative durations (#14323)

3 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/metrics/__init__.py b/tests/metrics/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/metrics/__init__.py
diff --git a/tests/metrics/test_background_process_metrics.py b/tests/metrics/test_background_process_metrics.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f0f6cb2912
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/metrics/test_background_process_metrics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from unittest import TestCase as StdlibTestCase
+from unittest.mock import Mock
+
+from synapse.logging.context import ContextResourceUsage, LoggingContext
+from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import _BackgroundProcess
+
+
+class TestBackgroundProcessMetrics(StdlibTestCase):
+    def test_update_metrics_with_negative_time_diff(self) -> None:
+        """We should ignore negative reported utime and stime differences"""
+        usage = ContextResourceUsage()
+        usage.ru_stime = usage.ru_utime = -1.0
+
+        mock_logging_context = Mock(spec=LoggingContext)
+        mock_logging_context.get_resource_usage.return_value = usage
+
+        process = _BackgroundProcess("test process", mock_logging_context)
+        # Should not raise
+        process.update_metrics()
diff --git a/tests/test_metrics.py b/tests/metrics/test_metrics.py
index 1a70eddc9b..bddc4228bc 100644
--- a/tests/test_metrics.py
+++ b/tests/metrics/test_metrics.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+from typing_extensions import Protocol
+
 try:
     from importlib import metadata
 except ImportError:
@@ -52,7 +54,11 @@ def get_sample_labels_value(sample):
 
 class TestMauLimit(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_basic(self):
-        gauge = InFlightGauge(
+        class MetricEntry(Protocol):
+            foo: int
+            bar: int
+
+        gauge: InFlightGauge[MetricEntry] = InFlightGauge(
             "test1", "", labels=["test_label"], sub_metrics=["foo", "bar"]
         )
 
@@ -146,7 +152,7 @@ class CacheMetricsTests(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         Caches produce metrics reflecting their state when scraped.
         """
         CACHE_NAME = "cache_metrics_test_fgjkbdfg"
-        cache = DeferredCache(CACHE_NAME, max_entries=777)
+        cache: DeferredCache[str, str] = DeferredCache(CACHE_NAME, max_entries=777)
 
         items = {
             x.split(b"{")[0].decode("ascii"): x.split(b" ")[1].decode("ascii")